... WINFIELD SCOTT'S VISIT TO COLUMBUS WINFIELD SCOT T' S VISIT TO COLUMBUS BY GEN H B CARRINGTON U S A General Henry Beebee Carrington is one of the very few su viving generals of the Civil War He has led a distinguished ar eventful life Born in Wallingford Conn March 2 1824 he is now the age of eighty-six hale and hearty a writer of clearness and precisio and a speaker forceful and entertaining He graduated at Yale 1845 and in November 1848 arrived in Columbus to there take up his pe manent ...
... GEORGE C GEORGE C CROUT Albert B Graham School Days of a Schoolmaster Albert B Graham was born March 13 1868 or as he expressed it in his own wry sense of humor came up between two stalks of corn on the last farm on Route 36 west of St Paris in Champaign County1 From as early as he could remember he had aspirations of being a schoolmaster When he first revealed his secret ambition his Scotch-Presbyterian father remarked What a thing for a lad to decide when there is a mortgage on the farm2 ...
... THE ECONOMIC PROGRESS OF OHIO THE ECONOMIC PROGRESS OF OHIO INTRODUCTORY NOTE In the preparation of this paper certain government statistics particularly the Report of the Census for 1800 1810 1820 and 1830 and the Report on Manufactures in the United States 1832 have proved especially valuable Useful too have been the contemporary state histories particularly Caleb Atwater's History of Ohio Cincinnati 1838 and the Farmers' Centennial History of Ohio published at Columbus in 1903 by the State ...
... 352 Ohio Arch 3 52 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications THOMAS MORRIS BY JAMES B SWING CINCINNATI 0 It is important that the memory of strong brave men who have been conspicuous in their day and influential for good should be kept green There is nothing more inspiring than the story of the life of an intellectual and moral hero There is a noble a great name in the history of Ohio that ought to be remembered and honored of all but that is well-nigh forgotten a name that perhaps most of our ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 467 stimulation of his firm assurance that all is well here below and all will be better in the world beyond His life was above reproach his career an inspiration None knew him but to love him none named him but to praise No organization with which he was connected seemed to give him greater pleasure than the Archaeological and Historical Society Its field of investigation its province of collecting and preserving the records of the past and its work of storing the ...
... 64 Ohio Arch 64 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications and of course there is a constant demand for new vessels Further along after traversing a portion of the Ohio river the same author writes The boats which float upon the Ohio river are various--from the ship of several hundred tons burden to the mere skiff Very few if any very large vessels however are now built at Pittsburgh and Marietta but the difficulties incident to getting them to the ocean have rendered such undertakings infrequent ...
... 438 THE WORLD WAR MEMORIAL WING-NORTH FACADE DEDICATION OF OHIO'S WORLD WAR DEDICATION OF OHIO'S WORLD WAR MEMORIAL An event of first importance in the history of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society is here to be recorded On April 6 1926 the Memorial Wing of the Museum and Library building of the Society was dedicated with impressive ceremonies This was the culmination of a movement that began soon after the close of the World War The collections of the Society had outgrown ...
... DELAWARE IN THE DAYS OF 1812 DELAWARE IN THE DAYS OF 1812 ALICE HILLS Miss Hills is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution Delaware Ohio Chapter for which she prepared the following bit of local history In the war of 1812 Ohio or a part of it was the scene of much military action in which our own country and town played no small part Delaware situated so nearly in the centre of the state about half way between Chillicothe the capital and the scene of operations around Sandusky ...
... B O O K R E V I E W S HAYES THE DIARY OF A PRESIDENT 1875-1881 COVERING THE DISPUTED ELECTION THE END OF RECONSTRUCTION AND THE BEGINNING OF CIVIL SERVICE Edited by T Harry Williams New York David McKay Company 1964 xliv329p introduction chronology dramatis personae and index 650 I approached the assignment to review this book not only with interest but also with some concern As a member of the staff of the Rutherford B Hayes Library and Museum some years ago I had become acquainted with the ...
... CHARLES BURLEIGH GALBREATH1 CHARLES BURLEIGH GALBREATH1 BY JOHN F CARLISLE Charles Burleigh Galbreath was born on a farm near Leetonia Columbiana County Ohio February 25 1858 and died February 23 1934 just two days before his birthday date He was the son of Edward Paxson Galbreath and Jane Minerva Shaw Galbreath and was a birthright member of the Society of Friends In the closing days of the Civil War he began his elementary education He learned to read from the McGuffey Readers and to figure ...
... 228 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 228 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY in Europe and we are becoming politically alive in every direction that there exists as never before the possibility of cultivating such a higher form of political science and history This new political science will not aim primarily at dictating political decisions but prepare the ground for such decisions it will reveal and illuminate combinations in the realm of politics and history which ...
... MAJOR DAVID ZIEGLER MAJOR DAVID Z I EGLER BY GEORGE A KATZENBERGER A custom has grown up of commemorating the Centennial anniversary of the birth or death of prominent men as well as of other important events and as it is a hundred years since the death of the subject of this sketch and I fail to find David Ziegler's name in any of the indices of the nineteen volumes of the publications of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society I have gathered a number of items concerning the ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR UNVEILING OF MEMORIAL TO ELIZABETH ZANE An event of more than passing interest in the pioneer history of the Ohio Valley was appropriately celebrated at Walnut Grove Cemetery Martins Ferry Ohio May 30 1928 This was the unveiling of a statue as a memorial to Elizabeth Zane--Heroine of Fort Henry Fort Henry named in honor of Patrick Henry was built on a hill within ...
... AN EXPEDITION AGAINST THE SHAKERS AN EXPEDITION AGAINST THE SHAKERS MONDAY August 27 1810 -This day occurred in the county of Warren now Union Village near Lebanon in the State of Ohio one of the most extraordinary instances of unconstitutional proceedings and the most formidable appearance of infringement on the rights of conscience that ever was witnessed in this country A body of five hundred armed men equipped in uniform and in military order with their officers appeared on the ground ...
... Civil War Letters of George M Civil War Letters of George M Wise Edited by WILFRED W BLACK George M Wise was born at Bellaire Ohio on September 5 1841 After attending Old Washington Academy four years he entered Jefferson College later Washington and Jefferson College prior to his enlistment There he was enrolled in the classical course of instruction After the war he was an accountant An expert in mathematics as well as geometry algebra and trigonometry he added by tens rather than units and ...
... NOTES ON CHOLERA IN SOUTHWESTERN OHIO NOTES ON CHOLERA IN SOUTHWESTERN OHIO By DAVID A TUCKER JR M D The first invasion of the North American continent by epidemic or Asiatic cholera occurred in 1832 The disease appears to have been carried across the Atlantic by emigrants from Ireland who landed during April and May at Gross Isle thirtytwo miles below the city of Quebec Cholera had appeared in a serious epidemic at Jessore India on the Delta of the Ganges in 1816-1817 It had spread slowly ...
... Emilius Oviatt Randall Emilius Oviatt Randall 99 ican Revolution and of the Benjamin Franklin the local chapter He served as an officer in both organizations and spoke upon many occasions on patriotic subjects at their meetings and banquets Col W L Curry a charter member of the State Society a Past President and for many years State Registrar and an active executive of the Society will speak RANDALL SON OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION BY COL W L CURRY Emilius Oviatt Randall to whom we pay tribute ...
... 30 Ohio Arch 30 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications not to enslave men but to make men free to enlarge in a vast degree the zone of Republican government All honor to George Croghan and his heroic band All honor to the soldiers of the revolution All honor to the soldiers of the Mexican war All honor to the soldiers of the Union All honor to the soldiers of the Spanish-American war The American people honor them They honor them each and all They hold them forever within the embrace of their ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 64 NUMBER 3 JULY 1955 The Correspondence of George A Myers and James Ford Rhodes 1910-1923-III Edited by JOHN A GARRA TY MYERS TO RHODES Cleveland March 16 1917 My Dear Mr Rhodes I was awful glad to receive your favor of the 5th1 It is indeed a source of much pleasure to receive a letter from you and its very considerate for you to write me as you do I know that you are a very busy man and the demands upon you from a social ...
... 64 Ohio Arch 64 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications Vo L 4 BOUNDARY LINE BETWEEN OHIO AND VIRGINIA INTRODUCTORY Previous to 1783 Virginia never laid any claim to the Ohio River--or in fact to any territory west of the Alleghenies because this region was originally a part of the vast district claimed by the French and known as Louisiana The Mississippi River was discovered by French missionaries and was subsequently explored to its mouth by LaSalle who according to the customs of the nations ...